Gulnara Timokhina

Gulnara (Gulya) Timokhina is an AI Software Engineer at Tesla since September 2025, with prior experience as a Staff Software Engineer at Thermo Fisher Scientific from June 2021 to June 2025, where significant contributions included developing deep learning and gradient boosting models for chromatographic peak filtering, resulting in a 95% accuracy and filing a related patent. Gulnara also served as a Senior Software Engineer at Provident Funding Associates L.P. from February 2002 to May 2021, designing a machine learning pipeline for automated loan approval and leading architectural and implementation efforts. Academically, Gulnara holds a Master of Science in Software Engineering with a concentration in Data Science from San José State University and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Novosibirsk State University.